Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way
Subtitle: 18th-century methods for today's organic gardeners
By: Wesley Greene ; photography by Barbara Temple Lombardi
Contributors: Lombardi, Barbara Temple
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Emmaus, Pa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781609611620
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: History; Vegetable gardening; Organic gardening
First sentence: The vegetables we know as beans and peas, called legumes, are members of the large Fabaceae family and represent some of the most important vegetable staples known to humankind.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: v; title: Introduction
pagenum: vi; label: 1
title: Of Beans and Peas
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Of the Cabbage Family
pagenum: 21; label: 3
title: Of Salad Greens
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: Of Root Crops
pagenum: 79; label: 5
title: Of the Onion Family
pagenum: 125; label: 6
title: Of Cucumbers and Melons
pagenum: 153; label: 7
title: Of Squash, Pumpkins, and Gourds
pagenum: 175; label: 8
title: Of Tomatoes and Peppers
pagenum: 191; label: 9
title: Of Luxuries and Oddities
pagenum: 205; label: 10
title: Gardening under Cover
pagenum: 227; label: 11
title: Growing Sticks
pagenum: 235; title: About the Author and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
pagenum: 238; title: A Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 239; title: Index
pagenum: 240